After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection, 6/e
James West Davidson,
Historian Mark H. Lytle,
Bard College
ISBN: 0073385484 Copyright year: 2010
Feature Summary
Lively and engaging narrative captures students' attention and engages them in the search for answers about the nation's past.
Examination of a broad variety of topics like oral evidence, photographs, ecological data, films and television programs, church and town records, census data, and novels, shows students how different kinds of materials can be treated as evidence.
Chapter-length case studies move chronologically through American history.
Apprentice-style approach to historical methods guides students step by step through a problem, introducing them to the explanations and interpretations of history.
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